How can I keep Apple watch from recording steps when I cycle

I don't have this problem, let's look at what I do differently.

I have a case on my handle bars for my phone, do you keep yours in your trouser pocket.

When I go for a cycle I initiate a cycle workout and also start strava (cycle app-but you likely know), do you do either of these things.

Mmmm,

That's odd. I usually go for 3-5 hour rides, so those missing hours from not walking around and generating steps are glaringly obvious to me, so I know I don't have your problem, I'm not discounting it doesn't add a few, but as a rule I might do 12-14,000 steps when I don't go cycling, that can fall to 5-7,000 if I go out on my bike for a few hours.

I wonder if it's using the additional app.

Seems like double credit.

I noticed, it is recording steps instead cycling distance when I am going very slowly, for example a steep uphill climb. So it is not exactly exactly giving a double credit, but filing the slow parts of the trip differently.

Which workout application did you use during the kayak trip? And did you have the iPhones with you?

A kayak trip will look like walking to the watch, because of plenty of wrist movements.

Do you keep the watch in a waterproof container while kayaking? The watch is not waterproof. It may not survive it, when you capsize the kayak, and that can happen to the best.

For example:

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-watch/apple-watch-sport?product=MJ3T2LL/A&step=det ail&product=MJ3T2LL/A

**Apple Watch is splash and water resistant but not waterproof. You can, for example, wear and use Apple Watch during exercise, in the rain, and while washing your hands, but submerging Apple Watch is not recommended. Apple Watch has a water resistance rating of IPX7 under IEC standard 60529. The leather bands are not water resistant.

That's exactly what I would expect it to do

This happens with me as well. And, I am running the cycling workout app. I keep my phone in a pouch on my shirt.

George

There isn't a kayaking activity on the watch, 'other' works as a brisk walk, a brisk walk involves steps.

And, I am running the cycling workout app.

Have you checked the cycling distance? When I am using the outdoor cycle, my watch seems to be splitting the distance between walking and cycling. When I am going rather slowly, uphill, it files the activity as walking and when I am going faster and downhill it files everything as cycling. The sum of the distances is always the same, it is just split differently between walking and cycling.

Hmm. Interesting. I havent noticed this but I cycle mostly on flat ground (Florida). My mid and final distances are about right. (BTW, I always bike with my phone in my pocket).

George

(BTW, I always bike with my phone in my pocket).

Same here.

But I am cycling most times in a hilly terrain. And when I use the bike for the way to worth distance differs usually by two km for the way to work and the way back. It is exactly the same route, but one direction has longer uphill parts.

I've Just finished my cycle for today, it's added no more than 300 steps during it, which is probably about right since two pubs were involved along the way. Where exactly does it register half walking and half cycling for you, my workout shows all cycling and my step count and calorie burn seem quite right, there is no way my calorie burn is from the few steps I've done today. There are times when I go quite slowly too, but I don't see anything attributed to walking instead.

This is yesterday when I didn't go cycling.